Yeah, you know, you like it to come on like gangbusters, but you get into passages that are very interesting and subtle, and sometimes your original intent changes quite a bit.
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Usually I begin things through a drawing, so a lot of things are worked out in the drawing. But even then, I still allow for and want to make changes.
More Roy Lichtenstein Quotes
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Color is crucial in painting, but it is very hard to talk about.
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I take a cliche and try to organize its forms to make it monumental. The difference is often not great, but it is crucial.
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I don’t think that I’m over his influence but they probably don’t look like Picassos; Picasso himself would probably have thrown up looking at my pictures.
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Color is crucial in painting, but it is very hard to talk about.
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I dont have big anxieties. I wish I did. Id be much more interesting.
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And I dont really want it to carry one. Im not interested in the subject matter to try to teach society anything, or to try to better our world in any way.
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Pop Art looks out into the world. It doesnt look like a painting of something, it looks like the thing itself.
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I’d always wanted to know the difference between a mark that was art and one that wasn’t.
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Pop Art is industrial painting.
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My work sanitizes it (emotion) but it is also symbolic of commercial art sanitizing human feelings. I think it can be read that way….
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All my art is in some way about other art, even if the other art is cartoons.
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You know, as you compose music, you’re just off in your own world.
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I think that most people think painters are kind of ridiculous, you know?
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Yes, you know sometimes, we started out thinking out how strange our painting was next to normal painting, which was anything expressionist.
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Everybody knows that abstract art can be art, and most people know that they may not like it, even if they understand there’s another purpose to it.
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